金融危机下劳动关系新变化与工会应对策略研究

受国际金融危机的影响,我国企业劳动关系出现了一些新的变化。面对新变化,工会在推进企业和谐劳动关系建设,促进企业和谐发展、维护职工就业权、实现职工体面劳动中的任务特别艰巨。在"保增长、保民生、保稳定"大局中,各级工会应当充分发挥大学校作用。     

浅析维护职工合法权益是工会的基本职责

新修改的《工会法》明确提出维护职工的合法权益是工会的基本职责。要实现维护基本职责,工会必须坚持在党的领导下,依法独立开展工作,认真开展集体协商签订集体合同以及企业民主管理工作。当前要着重做好加强职工与企业利益共同体教育,做好维护职工劳动权、就业权工作,加紧工会的自身建设和改革,促进企业的稳定和改革的顺利进行。     

深入开展创建劳动关系和谐企业活动的思考

创建劳动关系和谐企业活动（以下简称创建活动）是工会为和谐社会建设大局服务的主要方式和重要切入点。许多企业工会以创建活动为载体，把工会的各项工作统筹落实到企业中去，在建立和谐劳动关系、保障职工合法权益、促进企业健康发展、确保企业和职工共享发展成果等方面发挥了重要的作用。当前，我们要不断提高认识，进一步将创建活动引向深入。     

新就业形态劳动者的劳动权益保障 ：内容、现状及策略

新就业形态劳动者的劳动权益保障问题已成为政府和社会公众密切关注的重要问题。新就业形 态劳动者的劳动权益包括劳动就业权、劳动报酬权、劳动条件权和劳动救济权 4 类，并可以细分为 13 项权利。 本研究以外卖骑手为代表，进一步分析了新就业形态劳动者劳动就业权、劳动报酬权和劳动条件权中的社会保 障权的现状。研究发现，新就业形态劳动者的劳动就业权、劳动报酬权和社会保障权相比该群体劳动者的平均 情况都得到了改善。研究认为提升新就业形态劳动者的劳动权益保障水平需要更复杂的策略行动，包括继续发 挥好市场作用、处理好短期与长期的关系，以及政府与平台企业协同治理等。     

新时期工会促就业工作的三个着力点

就业是民生之本、安国之策、和谐之基,是保障和改善民生的头等大事。当前和今后一个时期,国内经济增速放缓、产业结构调整带来的就业压力仍然很大,就业形势十分复杂,促进就业将是一项长期而艰巨的任务。协助党和政府扩大和稳定就业,维护好职工劳动就业权益，始终是工会的重点工作之一。各级工会应从工作实际出发，深入推进职工技能培训和就业服务工作，并力争在工会小额贷款方面取得突破。     

切实维护职工劳动经济权益 促进构建社会主义和谐社会

职工劳动经济权益是劳动者权益的核心和基础。中国工会始终以维护职工权益为基本职责。无论是在新民主主义革命时期,还是在社会主义建设和改革开放时期,维护职工的劳动经济权益,始终都是工会工作的重要内容。在新时期,各级工会围绕劳动就业、收入分配、社会保障等事关职工切身利益的问题,深入开展调研,搞好源头参与,有效实施监督,办好工会实事,工会保障工作得到了长足发展。一、积极参与涉及职工劳动就业、收入分配、社会保障等法律、法规和政策的制定,从源头上维护职工权益各级工会积极参与涉及职工切身利益的劳动保障政策法规的研究制定,…     

加强工会公职律师队伍建设 为推进工会工作法治化建设提供人才保障

工会公职律师是维护职工合法权益、构建和谐劳动关系的专业队伍,是工会组织运用法治思维法治方式化解劳动争议的人才保障。近年来,上海市总工会在扩大工会公职律师试点范围、加强管理制度建设和搭建公职律师工作平台等方面做出一系列有益尝试,并取得一定成效。一、扩大工会公职律师试点范围为进一步加强工会公职律师队伍建设,充分发挥工会公职律师在维护职工合法权益、促进劳动关系和谐中的作用,     

劳模企业家应在创建和谐企业中发挥作用

工会和劳模协会如何更好地围绕中心、服务大局是各级工会在实践中不断探讨的问题。山东省济宁市总工会推动劳模企业家带头创建劳动关系和谐企业,并以此作为促进企业发展、维护职工权益、优化发展环境的重要途径和举措。一、可行性和意义劳模企业家带头创建劳动关系和谐企业是更好地服务大局的需要。保障职工政治、经济、文化等方面的权益,是建立和谐稳定劳动关系的基石,是构建和谐社会的前提和基础。工会发挥与劳模联系多的优势,动员劳模企业家带头创建劳动关系和谐企业,是新形势下更好地服务大局的切入点。劳模企业家带头创建劳动关系和谐…     

践行工会维权观要注意处理好十个方面的关系

"以职工为本,主动依法科学维权"的中国特色社会主义工会维权观,是对马克思主义工会维权理论的丰富和发展,对于搞好工会维权工作、构建和谐社会具有十分重要的作用。如何落实好这一维权     

试论新时期工会维权机制建设

加强维权机制建设,是工会组织履行维护职责、发挥桥梁纽带作用的内在要求。在推进企业改革发展的过程中,要不断提高对工会维权机制建设重要性的认识,坚持体现工会工作的政治性、先进性、群众性这一根本原则,全方位加强工会维权机制建设,维护职工发展权、民主政治权、劳动经济权、社会保障权和精神文化权益,促进企业和职工共同发展、和谐发展。     

Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law

This article seeks to identify and address the normative void that resides at the heart of postmodernist-feminist theory, and to propose a philosophical framework – beyond postmodernism, but incorporating its central insights – for thinking through the normative questions with which feminists are inevitably confronted in their engagements with positive law. Two varieties of postmodernist-feminism are identified and critically analysed: the ‘corporeal feminism’ of Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, which seeks to ground feminist critical practice in the irruptive capacities of the material body considered as an arte fact of social construction; and the deconstructionist feminism of Drucilla Cornell, for whom ‘the feminine’ is an indeterminate but disruptive force beyond its construction in law and in other social sites. The first component of the argument elaborated here is that each of these approaches ultimately reduces to a form of aestheticism which is incapable of generating a worthwhile and workable feminist approach to the restructuring of politics and law. The second component of the argument involves a return to aesthetics, in particular to the philosophical aesthetics of Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Kant’s aesthetic philosophy, it will be suggested, yields a framework of concepts which, duly re-manipulated, could speak to the very concerns that have inspired postmodernist-feminism: how to attend to (bodily) particularity while avoiding the dangers associated with ‘essentialism’; and how to theorise the propensity of the unrepresentable power of the feminine to exceed both embodied human capacities and the confining rein of socially privileged rationalities. Crucially, however it also responds to a set of preoccupations – those of the feminist lawyer – that cannot be accommodated by postmodernism: how to translate embodied experience into (legal) norms; generalise from the particular; seek consensus; and codify an endless potentiality in the form of law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Between

Thinking with this special issue's group of feminist thinkers – some artists and others scholars – this introduction makes a strong case for co-authorship and a more collaborative humanities, while also insisting that the couple form – that stalwart object of queer and feminist theory – is neither a known quantity nor an exhausted entity, but rather, a field ripe for analysis. Situated squarely within performance studies, this introduction pivots away from questions of ontology and toward method and performativity, in order to ask: what modes of intellectual practice, erotic exchange, political work, and aesthetic experimentation happen uniquely within couple forms, in their most capacious and non-self-same iterations? What queer and feminist work can they do? What, in other words, is possible in the infinity, if indeed it is an infinity, between one and two?     

Other forms of conviviality: The best and least of which is our daily care and the host of which is our collaborative work

In this collaboratively written essay, artists Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitsanos take a queer materialist feminist approach to the entanglement of dependency and reproductive labor, disability, intimacy, and the impossibility of exchanging incommensurables. The text merges the authors' experiences receiving and providing one another care with their artistic practices, and includes instructive performance scores for past, rather than future, events.     

Men in Skirts

There are signs that the wearing of skirts by men appears to be on the increase in the West. Connor's essay provides a series of historical reflections on the signification and cultural phenomenology of male and female apparel. The first appearance of bifurcated dress in the late mediaeval period is considered, along with the struggle between men and women for command of lateral space during the seventeenth century in Europe, as attested to by commentators like John Bulwer and John Evelyn. Explications are offered of the thematics of the fringe and the pocket, as they are dramatized in trousers and skirts, as well as of the logic of lightness and of the pendant. Trousers, Connors concludes, have never lost their fanciful associations with utility, practicality and rationality; they are the signs of occupation, of being taken up in what you do, rather than consumed in what you are. The political victory of the trousered over the untrousered races (Romans, Scots, Indians etc.) is confirmed by its inversion in male masochist fantasies of 'petticoat government', from the late nineteenth century onwards.     

Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind

Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame – a set of assumptions – that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greater voice in food production and fairer access to the food produced.     

Trauma as Site of Identity: The Case of Jeanette Winterson and Frida Kahlo

B y taking gender seriously, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa appeared to reverse the trend set by many liberation movements elsewhere: namely, women being mobilized as agents in struggles around class and race, yet denied the imperative of addressing gender subordination. Shortly after coming to power, the ANC adopted a national strategy for advancing gender equality. By doing so it demonstrated that it could rise above the limitations of its erstwhile 'woman question' position (Beall et al. 1989) and learn from the experience of other countries that had tried to institutionalize gender policies and structures. This in turn served to place South Africa at the cutting edge of experience in state-initiated gender policies and 'national machineries' for women. Nevertheless, South Africa's National Machinery for Advancing Gender Equality merits critical scrutiny, both in terms of its intrinsic aims and objectives and in relation to its potential for making an impact, given the development policy context of contemporary South Africa. Drawing on research conducted in South Africa over a number of years--during the 1980s (Beall et al. 1987) and, more recently, since 1997 (Beall 1997, 1998), it is possible to consider what lessons are to be learned from the institutionalization of gender-sensitive policy and practice in a complex institutional environment.     

Close Encounters: Solidarity,Servitude and Postcolonial Feminist Affects and Affiliations

Abstract

This essay offers close readings of three texts that in different ways foreground the problems, possibilities and struggle involved in forging affective connections across difference between women: Kate Clanchy, What is She Doing Here? 2008, Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy, 1991a and Marlene Van Niekerk, ‘Labour’, 2004. The author argues that the incomplete and partial nature of affective moments represented in these texts signals possibilities for a cautiously redefined idea of affective feminist solidarity as it is mobilized in the intimacy of domestic spaces.     

The Impersonal Strategy: Re-visiting Virginia Woolf's Position in The Common Reader Essays

The concept of impersonality as a writer's strategy has been exposed to misinterpretations that either fail to exhaust its full meaning and deposit an unequal amount of attention on all components of the term or, in the worst case, tend to distort its true elements. In relation to Virginia Woolf's criticism, in particular, it is a critical commonplace that the author employed an impersonal position in order not to fully materialise her feminist vision, but to shy away from explicitly expressing her feminist convictions and openly supporting women's rights. Indicative of this is the criticism that suggests disapproval of Woolf's reluctance to side with her own gender and declare the power of female personality.

The aim here is to challenge such critical views, separate the discussion of impersonality from its association with that of androgyny, and re-visit the issue of Woolf's employment of the impersonal strategy. I examine two of Woolf's essays on nineteenth-century women writers included in her first volume of The Common Reader and offer an analysis from both a gender-oriented and a genderless angle. Woolf's strong affinity with female conditions of oppression, her modernist convictions, her need to compromise with the male-dominated context of the time and her concurrent urge to co-operate with the common reader of an unspecified sex for the sake of artistic creation reveal more complex reasons behind her intentions than those examined by critics so far.     

Introduction to queer circuits: Critical performance and digital praxis

This introduction situates the articles making up this special issue within four thematic clouds, positing queer theorization as broadly relevant for critically engaging with computational technologies and culture. These sub-themes offer suggestions for future queer inquiry and praxis and reflect key terms in performance studies and queer theory that have undergone transformation with the ubiquity of digital technology.     

From a Feminist Perspective: Plotinus on Teaching and Learning Philosophy

Vassilopoulou discusses Plotinus' educational practice as it may be reconstructed from his biography and texts. She concentrates on Plotinus' views on the role of women manifested in his revision of traditional metaphors that accentuate women's dependent status, the overall significance of the employment of metaphors within a philosophical context, and the ensuing conception of dialectic and rationality. Her analysis indicates that Plotinus' practice of teaching and learning philosophy reflects contemporary feminist values. Her claim is that a reading of Plotinus from a feminist perspective has much to contribute to contemporary debates raised in the context of feminist pedagogy and theory.